“Lumberjanes” was published two years ago via BOOM!’s BOOM! Box imprint, and was created by Shannon Watters, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen.

Will Widger wrote the first draft of the script. The project is a priority at the studio, and Carmichael is the second female director hired onto a Fox movie in as many months, with “Kung Fu Panda 3”‘s Jennifer Yuh Nelson recently being hired to direct “Darkest Minds” for the studio.

20th Century Fox, Paramount Have No Female Directors Through 2018

Female directors in Hollywood haveÂ spokenÂ out about gender discrimination again and again and again. So it is surprising that not a single female director appears on the upcoming release slate for 20th Century Fox or Paramount, two of Hollywood's major studios.
A tally by TheWrap found 22 consecutive films from Fox -- not counting Fox Searchlight, the studio's art-house division -- and 25 consecutive releases from Paramount had only male directors attached. So far, that covers all movies scheduled to hit theaters this year, next year and 2018 too.
Representatives for Fox declined to comment; Paramount did not respond to repeated requests from TheWrap. Neither studio disputed the statistics.
"It is always shocking, though unfortunately not surprising, to see that studios continue to not give women opportunities to direct," Melissa Silverstein, founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood, told TheWrap. "This is a complex issue. The film business is layered with sexism so that when you peel away one layer, you still have many layers to get through."

A plethora ofÂ disappointing dataÂ about the lack of women directors in Hollywood has received a great deal of attention in the past few years. A long-term study by Martha Lauzen found that only 9 percent of the top 100-grossing movies were directed by women last year.
Meanwhile, Hollywood keeps pledging to change.Â Stacey Snider, who joined Fox in 2014 as co-chairman and CEO of the film studio with Jim Gianopulos, has addressed the obstacles facing women in Hollywood. "The issue of opportunity for women is real, and it's in front of us," she said last fall. "It's incumbent upon us as business leaders to really address it seriously."
But aside from Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni's "Kung Fu Panda 3," the DreamWorks Animation hit which Fox distributed earlier this year as part of an output deal, the studio has not released a single movie with a female director since Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum's "Ramona and Beezus" in 2010.
Fox Searchlight, the art-house unit that often relies on acquisitions as opposed to projects developed in-house, has a better track record. Co-presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley have at least two movies with female directors in the pipeline, Mandie Fletcher's "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie," due out July 22, and Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' "Battle of the Sexes," which is now in production.
Paramount, which traditionally has a much smaller output than the other major studios, last released a movie with a woman director in 2014: Ava Duvernay's acclaimed historical drama "Selma."
With big-budget, action-packed studio tentpoles that cater to the tastes of teenage boys, women can't get access to the jobs men get. "They can't get on the studio track," Silverstein added. "The studios have been awakened and schooled on their unconscious bias. No longer is it acceptable to say that women are not competent, or there are not enough women, or that they don't know any women. This consistent and persistent view of women directors is plain and simple discrimination."
Hollywood is trying to improve its statistics regarding female directors, but the truth is that global audiences won't really witness the result of this sea change for several more years. After all, the films hitting theaters this year and next were put into development pipelines many years ago, before the outcry of gender-bias reached deafening levels.

A tally by TheWrap found 22 consecutive films from Fox — not counting Fox Searchlight — and 25 from Paramount had no women directors in sight

Female directors in Hollywood haveÂ spokenÂ out about gender discrimination again and again and again. So it is surprising that not a single female director appears on the upcoming release slate for 20th Century Fox or Paramount, two of Hollywood's major studios.
A tally by TheWrap found 22 consecutive films from Fox -- not counting Fox Searchlight, the studio's art-house division -- and 25 consecutive releases from Paramount had only male directors attached. So far, that covers all movies scheduled to hit theaters this year, next year and 2018 too.
Representatives for Fox declined to comment; Paramount did not respond to repeated requests from TheWrap. Neither studio disputed the statistics.
"It is always shocking, though unfortunately not surprising, to see that studios continue to not give women opportunities to direct," Melissa Silverstein, founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood, told TheWrap. "This is a complex issue. The film business is layered with sexism so that when you peel away one layer, you still have many layers to get through."

A plethora ofÂ disappointing dataÂ about the lack of women directors in Hollywood has received a great deal of attention in the past few years. A long-term study by Martha Lauzen found that only 9 percent of the top 100-grossing movies were directed by women last year.
Meanwhile, Hollywood keeps pledging to change.Â Stacey Snider, who joined Fox in 2014 as co-chairman and CEO of the film studio with Jim Gianopulos, has addressed the obstacles facing women in Hollywood. "The issue of opportunity for women is real, and it's in front of us," she said last fall. "It's incumbent upon us as business leaders to really address it seriously."
But aside from Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni's "Kung Fu Panda 3," the DreamWorks Animation hit which Fox distributed earlier this year as part of an output deal, the studio has not released a single movie with a female director since Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum's "Ramona and Beezus" in 2010.
Fox Searchlight, the art-house unit that often relies on acquisitions as opposed to projects developed in-house, has a better track record. Co-presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley have at least two movies with female directors in the pipeline, Mandie Fletcher's "Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie," due out July 22, and Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' "Battle of the Sexes," which is now in production.
Paramount, which traditionally has a much smaller output than the other major studios, last released a movie with a woman director in 2014: Ava Duvernay's acclaimed historical drama "Selma."
With big-budget, action-packed studio tentpoles that cater to the tastes of teenage boys, women can't get access to the jobs men get. "They can't get on the studio track," Silverstein added. "The studios have been awakened and schooled on their unconscious bias. No longer is it acceptable to say that women are not competent, or there are not enough women, or that they don't know any women. This consistent and persistent view of women directors is plain and simple discrimination."
Hollywood is trying to improve its statistics regarding female directors, but the truth is that global audiences won't really witness the result of this sea change for several more years. After all, the films hitting theaters this year and next were put into development pipelines many years ago, before the outcry of gender-bias reached deafening levels.